Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
Life and career
Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in 1974 in central Connecticut.
Their family owned movie theaters, including a drive-in, in several small towns across the state. Calvocoressi, who identifies as nonbinary and lesbian, has used their writing to reflect on their mother's mental illness and suicide;
their work also explores small town America, history, sexuality, faith, violence, gender, and the body.
They studied at
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...
and earned an MFA from
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
.
They have been a visiting professor of poetry at
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
,
Bennington College
Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont. Founded in 1932 as a women's college, it became co-educational in 1969. It claims to be the first college to include visual and performing arts as an equal partner in ...
, and
UC-Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
, and held a Stegner Fellowship and a Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.
They also taught in the MFA program at
California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second campus in San ...
.
Calvocoressi is Poetry Editor at Large for the ''
Los Angeles Review of Books
The ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' (''LARB'' is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 2012. ...
'' (''LARB''). Stemming from their "deep interest in interdisciplinary approaches to writing, art, and ecological culture," they created Voluble, an "off-the-page makers’ space for writers and artists of all kinds," supported by ''LARB''.
They have written about their experiences with
nystagmus
Nystagmus is a condition of involuntary (or voluntary, in some cases) eye movement. Infants can be born with it but more commonly acquire it in infancy or later in life. In many cases it may result in reduced or limited vision. Due to the invol ...
and how the visual/neurological difference has shaped their work as a poet and a reader.
They now teach in the
Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a requisite course of study, work an on-campus j ...
, and at
University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill, where they are an Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry. They live in North Carolina with their partner Angeline Shaka. Currently, they serve as the director for
The Frost Place
The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
...
Conference on Poetry in Franconia, NH.
Awards and honors
* 2000
Stegner Fellowship
The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ...
at Stanford University.
* 2002
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award was ...
.
* 2002
Jones Lectureship The Jones Lectureship at Stanford University is a two-year teaching fellowship available to previous Stegner Fellowship, Stegner Fellows. The Lectureship is available in fiction and poetry and is intended to provide writers with the time and support ...
at Stanford University.
* 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, winner for ''The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.''
* 2009
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Since 1980, the ''Los Angeles Times'' has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes currently have nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller ( ...
, finalist for ''Apocalyptic Swing''.
* 2012 Lannan Foundation Writers' Residency in
Marfa Marfa may refer to:
Music
* Marfa (instrument), an African percussion instrument
* Marfa (music), celebratory music of the Hyderabadi Muslims Places
* Márfa, a village in Baranya county, Hungary
* Marfa, Chad
* Marfa, Texas, a city in the hig ...
.
Works
* ''The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.'' Persea Books. 2005. .
* ''Apocalyptic Swing.'' Persea Books. 2009. .
* ''The New Economy Chapbook Vol. 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017.''
* ''Rocket Fantastic.'' Persea Books. September 2017. .
References
External links
Chapbook: Southern Foodways Alliance > ''The New Economy Chapbook Vol. 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017''Poem: ''The American Poetry Review'' > Vol. 44, No. 6 > ''Praise House: The New Economy'' by Gabrielle CalvocoressiPoem: ''Boston Review'' > 2013 > from ''Rocket Fantastic'' by Gabrielle CalvocoressiInterview: ''Divedapper'' > No. 19, March 2015 > ''An Interview with Gabrielle Calvocoressi'' by Kaveh Akbar
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1974 births
Living people
21st-century American poets
American LGBT poets
Poets from Connecticut
Sarah Lawrence College alumni
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
American women poets
21st-century American women writers
Non-binary writers
American lesbian writers